I'm back in the game as well. Actually I've got my TM back a while ago already, but I had to finish my pre-degree first Took them (Acer) a while to repair the thing anyway, I had to send it in 4(!) times until they found the actual error, an insulate contact in the display connector cable. That is, they found it only after I withdrew from the purchase contract (that's legal in germany after 2 failed repairs, so I even gave them one more chance than I had to). Kinda frustrating as their support was quite good otherwise, and fast. Never >7 days. Seems to affect accuracy tho.

Anyway, it's functional again now, that's all I wanted in the first place. I took the opportunity (of not having to buy a new notebook ) to upgrade my RAM to 768MB and to buy a new HDD (Samsung M40, 80GB). I can only recommend the latter one, it's the most silent hdd I ever had! You can barely here it operating, in contrast to the Seagate Acer built in during repairs, although it's 5400rpm vs. 4200rpm.

On the downside, I failed 'til now to prevent coldplug from starting my ipw2100 on boot. If someone's got a hint on that one, I'd appreciate it - other than rc-update del coldplug, that is. Even better would be a conditional net-device startup, like: check for link on eth0, otherwise start wlan. And a possibility to switch environments like in MacOS X. And... but hey, I'm only dreaming

Switch environments? Have you taken a look at quickswitch for example? It can switch network connections (manually though) and change any configuration files (like /etc/hosts) depending on the network configuration. There are other tools like this as well. What does switching environments in MacOS X mean?

Well that's somewhat like what I meant, however it still seems too complicated, with no real interface. I mean, I'm all for cli tools and such, but network's given me too much hassle lately. For example, why can't the baselayout's net.lo script just get my IP via DHCP (LAN), while this little self-written script can?

Well that's somewhat like what I meant, however it still seems too complicated, with no real interface.

I just came across NetworkManager. This sounds like the solution to all the network (administration / connectivity) problems that we've ever had. No ebuild available yet, but Gentoo support is supposed to be built in.

Okay I'm running NM now since some days (I switched to gnome-light 2.12 on the way), and it's running quite nice. At first I had some problems with the NM <-> dhclient interaction, until I found out that I forgot to add the dbus USE flag on the emerge. That's absolutely obligatory, or NM won't be able to communicate to dhclient at all!
The wired connection works well so far, connect/disconnect is handled correctly. With WLAN that's not the case, but I think it's due to coldplug autoloading my ipw2100 driver, which also starts the net.ath0 script automagically. Anyone got an idea how to turn that off? Or do I have to deactivate coldplug altogether?_________________Violence is the last resort of the incompetent --Isaac Asimov
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pcscdaemon.c:242:main() pcscd set to foreground with debug send to stderr
debuglog.c:143:DebugLogSetLevel() debug level=debug
configfile.l:98:evaluatetoken() Error with device /dev/ozscrlx: No such file or directory
configfile.l:99:evaluatetoken() You should use 'DEVICENAME /dev/null' if your driver does not use this field
pcscdaemon.c:469:at_exit() cleaning /var/run
pcscdaemon.c:488:clean_temp_files() Cannot unlink /var/run/pcscd.comm: No such file or directory

Okay I just tried to get the o2micro (most recent is 2.0.2) to run on vanilla 2.6.14.2 - turns out that it needs to be patched first since a callback function was forgotten. That's where the

Code:

pcmcia: ozscrlx_cs lacks a requisite callback function

error message came from.
I didn't yet get it to work either, no /dev/ozscrlx is created. Propably udev-rules need to be updated, I'll propably dig into that later.
Btw, pcsc-lite-1.2.9_beta8 doesn't build on my system (missing muscle*.la), anyone got that too?

NetworkManager is finally running as it's supposed to after I removed coldplug from default runlevel and erased the net.ath0 symlink. It's nice to be able to switch connections that easily

On a sidenote, I came about to fix the DSDT table for the current 4a20 BIOS revision, you can get the .dsl file at the linux acpi site. You'd need the iasl compiler to install it, though. See here for a HOWTO. I'd also provide the dsdt.{hex,aml} if you want.

On a sidenote, I came about to fix the DSDT table for the current 4a20 BIOS revision, you can get the .dsl file at the linux acpi site. You'd need the iasl compiler to install it, though. See here for a HOWTO. I'd also provide the dsdt.{hex,aml} if you want.

What exactly did you fix? I must say that I've got close to no problems that I know of

Well mostly warnings and stuff, all those cruft the MSFT DSDT compiler let slip through as "valid DSDT code" (which it wasn't). The Linux ACPI implementation is not that pedantic about it nowadays, but I'd still rather have a correct DSDT (that is, one with no syntax errors in it).

One thing tho: the image that's available online isn't really _clean_, there's a line of cruft at top and bottom that you have to delete in order to get it compiled (lots of ^@^@^@^@ chars and whatnot)

Hm, at first I thought it was my bad, but obviously the file got renamed automagically - I definitely uploaded a .tgz (the file is still on my disk, named dsdt.tgz). Seems that you're required to upload them as gzip only, they should've mentioned this somewhere I added a comment about it.

If you're using the ati-binary driver, aren't you supposed to use it in your xorg.conf as well, instead of the dri variant? As far as I remember, dri and/or drm were incompatible (and normally led to a non-working X-Server)._________________Violence is the last resort of the incompetent --Isaac Asimov
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Hi @all
first thanks for your great work, I've been following this thread for a long time now, and it helped me a lot while setting up my tm 803

At the moment, I'm trying to get the cardreader to work, but I'm getting the same results as ToeiRei did first:

Software setup:
Kernel: linux-2.6.15-gentoo-suspend2-r4 (tested with linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r4 and linux-2.6.15.1 as well - same results)
Smartcard Drivers v. 2.0.3 (btw: there is an ebuild at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113562)
pcsc-lite version 1.2.9_beta10 (tried _beta9 & _beta8 as well, but they don't compile)
/dev/ozscrlx exists with major 123 minor 0 (as would be created by /etc/pcmcia/smartcardreader-ozscr)

module loads fine as far as I can tell (callback function seems to be included in this driver release)